Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered "persons" with human rights, according to the state's Court of Appeals. That means ...

The government started breeding chimpanzees, with whom humans share 98% of our genes, for invasive biomedical research in the 1980s — now the fate of more than 250 of these primates is uncertain. In ...

Chimpanzees have long fascinated researchers, not only for their unique behaviors, but also for how they are similar or (not) to humans. What’s been particularly interesting to field researchers is ...

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In early 2001, when the first draft of the human genome sequence was released by the National Institute of Health and Celera Genomics, the moment was heralded rightly as a new dawn for modern medicine ...

In a case which the results would seem obvious to most people and make litigating it unnecessary, the Michigan Court of Appeals had to rule that ...